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09/01/2006
Harry Potter tops 2005 US bestseller list
JK Rowling's latest Harry Potter adventure was the top selling book in the
US, according to sales figures which were released on Friday.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince sold 4.1 million copies in America on
the first day it was published and 7.02 million copies for the full year.
James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, a memoir about recovering from drug
and alcohol addiction, was second in the list after Oprah Winfrey chose it
for her bookclub.
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, who is currently being sued for plagiarism
by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, also featured on the list as did his
book Angels and Demons.
Top 10 bestsellers in the United States in 2005:
1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling (Arthur A Levine
Books)
2 A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (Anchor Books)
3 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead)
4 1776 by David McCullough (Simon & Schuster)
5 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
6 The World Is Flat by Thomas L Friedman (Farrar Straus Giroux)
7 The Purpose-Driven Life by Rick Warren (Zondervan)
8 Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (Pocket Star)
9 You: The Owner's Manual by Mehmet Oz (HarperCollins)
10 Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Related News:
Baigent and Leigh sue Da Vinci publisher
Court date agreed for Da Vinci trial
Bibliofemme Reviews:
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
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